TY - BOOK ID - 17289129 TI - The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century opera AU - DelDonna, Anthony R. AU - Polzonetti, Pierpaolo. PY - 2016 SN - 9780521695381 0521873584 9780521695381 0521695384 9780521873581 9781139002585 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Opera KW - Music KW - Theatrical science KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - OpeĢra KW - Opera - 18th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17289129 AB - Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing, acting style, and the politics and strategy of representing class and gender. Overall, the volume provides a synthesis of well established knowledge, reflects recent research on eighteenth-century opera, and stimulates further research. The reader is encouraged to view opera as a cultural phenomenon that can reveal aspects of our culture, both past and present. Eighteenth-century opera is experiencing continuing critical and popular success through innovative and provoking productions world-wide, and this Companion will appeal to opera goers as well as to students and teachers of this key topic. ER -